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English Wikipedia and the Telugu Wikipedia joint meetup and edit-a-thon: Sakshi
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/english-wikipedia-and-the-telugu-wikipedia-joint-meetup-and-edit-a-thon-sakshi
<b>The article was published in Sakshi on December 20, 2015. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b>
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<p>On December 20, 2015 English Wikipedia and the Telugu Wikipedia joint meetup and edit-a-thon were conducted on Golden Threshold, Hyderabad.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/sakshicoverageonengtelwikimediansmeetup.jpg/@@images/09acd76a-6bdb-4155-91e4-443f4c259f56.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Sakshi" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/english-wikipedia-and-the-telugu-wikipedia-joint-meetup-and-edit-a-thon-sakshi'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/english-wikipedia-and-the-telugu-wikipedia-joint-meetup-and-edit-a-thon-sakshi</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:31:25ZNews ItemEnglish Wikipedia and the Telugu Wikipedia joint meetup and edit-a-thon: Andhra Jyoti
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/english-wikipedia-and-the-telugu-wikipedia-joint-meetup-and-edit-a-thon-andhra-jyoti
<b>The article was published in Andhra Jyoti on December 20, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On December 20, 2015 English Wikipedia and the Telugu Wikipedia joint meetup and edit-a-thon were conducted on Golden Threshold, Hyderabad. Andhra Jyoti covered the programme.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Andhrajyothicoverageonengtelwikimediansmeetup.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Andhra Jyoti" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/english-wikipedia-and-the-telugu-wikipedia-joint-meetup-and-edit-a-thon-andhra-jyoti'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/english-wikipedia-and-the-telugu-wikipedia-joint-meetup-and-edit-a-thon-andhra-jyoti</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:33:09ZNews ItemTelugu Wikipedia Day 2015: Eenadu Coverage
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage
<b>Telugu Wikipedians conducted history photowalk in Dr. YSR state archaeological museum to celebrate Telugu Wikipedia Day 2015 on December 13, 2015. Pavan Santosh supported the community as a representative from CIS-A2K</b>
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<p>Below is the media coverage of the event published by leading newspaper Eenadu (Hyderabad edition) on December 13, 2015.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Eenadu.jpg/@@images/a1d4f1b7-078d-44f5-b38e-083e80049f4b.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu Coverage" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:33:51ZNews ItemEnglish and Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-hyderabad
<b>After a long time, a collaborative Telugu and English Wikipedia edit-a-thon is being organised in Hyderabad on December 20.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-98d87700-f6fa-1493-9772-105a5994d0a4" dir="ltr">This Sunday, the Telugu and English language Wikipedia editors are organising a unique edit-a-thon at Golden Threshold, Abids. The event is aimed at translating many English Wikipedia articles related to Telugu language and culture to Telugu and vice versa. Theatre scholar and Telugu Wikimedian Pranay Raj Vangari and English Wikimedian Srikar Kasyap are organising this event with support from Centre for Internet and Society. Telugu speakers who contribute to English Wikipedia are going to contribute to Telugu Wikipedia. “The event is scheduled at 10 am and over a dozen articles are planned to be created during the sprint”, explains Vangari. Kashyap adds saying, “the Wikimedians are also planning to share best practices of the two communities which will benefit everyone”. The event is open to all and newbies will be oriented with the basics of Wikipedia editing and enriching the knowledge pool in Telugu and other languages on the Internet.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-hyderabad</a>
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No publisherPavan SantoshCIS-A2KWikipediaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-12-31T07:49:19ZEventCIS brings Nadustunna Charithra magazine under by CC BY SA licence
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence
<b>As a part of its content donation initiative, the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has brought all issues of Nadustunna Charithra magazine under Creative Common Licence. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS-A2K has received 74 issues as of now from the Telugu Jaati foundation. These issues shall be published by A2K on a blog site under CC BY SA licence to make it a reliable reference resource and adhere Wikipedia guidelines.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nadustunna Charithra magazine has dealt extensively with Telugu semantics and Telugu Cultural history and we hope to upload all the issues to Telugu Wikisource. These magazines will also serve as handy reference guides for Telugu Wikipedians and shall act as a major referencing and citation resource.<br /><br />CIS-A2K has also been successful in acquiring 250 song books (booklets that have the lyrics of songs featured in a film) of Telugu movies for content donation. These song books serve as introduction to the film itself. They contain lyrics of the songs, poster of the movie, details of the cast and crew, a short synopsis both in Telugu and English along with photographs of the lead actors. As of now CIS-A2K has been able to locate song books for most of the films produced between 1930-1954.<br /><br />These resources shall also help the Telugu community in coming up with new/improved articles related to Telugu cinema. With most of the basic information regarding a film available in the song book, we expect that the Telugu community along with active cooperation from A2K shall create GA quality articles and this content donation will also help in improving stubs that were created earlier.<br /><br />CIS-A2K is extremely grateful for the support received by the Telugu community during this content donation initiative and would like to thank in person Mr. Bhaskarnaidu, Mr. Gullapalli Nageshwara Rao who have been part of these conversations and helped us identify the resources to be re-licensed.<br /><br /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence</a>
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No publisherhasanTelugu WikipediaCreative CommonsAccess to KnowledgeOpen Access2016-06-18T18:07:46ZBlog EntryTelugu Wiki Edit-a-thon in ALC
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-editathon-alc
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team along with Telugu Wikipedia had conducted an edit-a-thon at Andhra Loyola College on August 6, 2015. Eenadu published a report on the edit-a-thon.</b>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/eenadunews.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-editathon-alc'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-editathon-alc</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T18:12:06ZNews ItemTelugu Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at ALC
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-edit-a-thon-at-alc
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team conducted an edit-a-thon at Andhra Loyola College on August 6, 2015. Eenadu published a report.</b>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/eenadunews.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-edit-a-thon-at-alc'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-edit-a-thon-at-alc</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T18:11:50ZNews ItemTelugu Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wikipedia-winter-camp-at-andhra-loyola-college
<b>Students of physics, statistics and Telugu departments of Andhra Loyola College spent 5 days of their Christmas vacation of 2014 to edit and enrich Telugu Wikipedia and Wikisource. They worked on their respective subject areas and came up with more than 100 new articles on Telugu Wikipedia and about 300 pages of Veeresalingam's works were typed on Telugu Wikisource. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-7001bc56-0180-4b37-3473-0a5ddcc84e87">CIS-A2K has signed an </span><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/expanding-the-world-of-telugu-wikipedia-cis-and-alc-join-hands">MoU</a> with <a href="http://andhraloyolacollege.ac.in/">Andhra Loyola College</a> to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across the globe. In this approoach, a two month camp was organised in the college campus. In continuation to the two month camp, 5 days of students' Christmas vacation were marked as Wiki Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College. 5 students from each of Physics, Statistics and Telugu showed interest to attend the camp. By the time, camp began, there were not 15 but 41 students from various disciplines who attended the camp.</p>
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<td>Students and faculty who attended the camp. Source :<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ALC_Wiki_winter_camp_students.JPG">Wikimedia Commons</a><br /></td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">For physics and statistics-department students, first day of the wiki winter camp involved students exploring English and Telugu Wikipedias, glancing through various reference websites such as JSTOR, IEEE Explorer, Google scholar, and their own textbooks in Telugu medium. New entrants created their user accounts on Telugu Wikipedia. Students got an essence of how an article on Wikipedia should look like, what should be there and what not. Few students came up with their own ray diagrams for physics (optics - mirrors) articles, uploaded them to Wkimedia Commons and then put them up in their articles. For some of the students, it was the first time they were typing in Telugu, and they felt very curious and excited. The rest of the three days students added about <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A7%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0_%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B3%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2/%E0%B0%AD%E0%B1%8C%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82">103 articles on Telugu Wikipedia on physics</a>, and <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A7%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0_%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B3%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%96%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%95_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%81#.E0.B0.95.E0.B1.8A.E0.B0.A4.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.A4_.E0.B0.B5.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.AF.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B8.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B2.E0.B1.81">a 10 articles on statistics</a>. By the end of 5 days camp, faculty and co-ordinator for physics, Dr. Sahaya Bhaskaran expressed happiness at his students' work, he affirmed that one can learn his respective subject only if he understands it in his native language, and if he could reproduce that in his native language, he would remember for long.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">For Telugu students the five-day camp was fun typing in works of Kandukuri Veeresaingam. First day, students who were new entrants learnt to type in Telugu, and were introduced to the Wikisource platform. In all, they typed about 300 pages of a compilation of Veeresalingam's works. Sri Kola Sekhar, faculty of Telugu a ALC and co-ordinator for Telugu wiki winter camp said he was confident of making students type entire Veeresalingam works in a year's time.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">At the end of the 5 day camp, students were given a review of their work, and students felicitated with certificates.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Convener for the camp, Dr. B. Sivakumari, who is also a Wikipedia co-ordinator for Botany, expressed her gratitude to CIS-A2K team for organising the program.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">This event has also contributed in achieving the 60,000+ article count landmark at Telugu Wikipedia and 10,000+ pages landmark at Telugu Wikisource.</p>
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<td>Media coverage in <a href="http://eenadu.net">Eenadu daily</a></td>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wikipedia-winter-camp-at-andhra-loyola-college'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wikipedia-winter-camp-at-andhra-loyola-college</a>
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No publisherrahimAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2015-02-26T02:27:05ZBlog EntryOnline Free Content in Telugu Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/andhra-jyothy-february-16-2015-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia
<b>Wikimedians gathered at Tirupati for a strategic meet. This was covered by the regional newspaper Andhra Jyothy </b>
<p>Click to read the article published on the website of <a class="external-link" href="http://epaper.andhrajyothy.com/detailednews?box=aHR0cDovL2VjZG4uYW5kaHJhanlvdGh5LmNvbS9GaWxlcy8yMDE1MDIxNjAyMTYwMjQ3NDIyMDguanBn&day=20150216">Andhra Jyothy</a>.</p>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_vishnu.png" alt="Online Telugu Wikipedia" class="image-inline" title="Online Telugu Wikipedia" /></th>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/andhra-jyothy-february-16-2015-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/andhra-jyothy-february-16-2015-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2015-02-19T15:51:32ZNews ItemTelugu Wikimedia Hackathon 2014
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikimedia-hackathon-2014
<b>Telugu Wikimedia (including their projects Telugu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikisource etc.) is one of the largest and most powerful Indian language Wikimedia projects, and it is growing and expanding everyday. In the last half of 2014, Telugu Wikimedia community members contacted CIS-A2K team with a request to organize a MediaWiki tutorial workshop for them. Following their request, on 28 December 2014, CIS-A2K team organized a MediaWiki hackathon event for Telugu Wikimedia community members to enhance their skills and understanding of technical matters related to MediaWiki usage. The theme of the workshop was “Mediawiki, its extensions and tools to work around” and it aimed at allowing Wikipedians to use MediaWiki tools more effectively.
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<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-4253b969-7456-2df0-c705-f7e4b07c5b18" style="text-align: justify; ">Telugu Wikimedia (including their projects Telugu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikisource etc.) is one of the largest and most powerful Indian language Wikimedia projects, and it is growing and expanding everyday. In the last half of 2014, Telugu Wikimedia community members contacted CIS-A2K team with a request to organize a MediaWiki tutorial workshop for them. Following their request, on 28 December 2014, CIS-A2K team organized a MediaWiki hackathon event for Telugu Wikimedia community members to enhance their skills and understanding of technical matters related to MediaWiki usage. The theme of the workshop was “Mediawiki, its extensions and tools to work around” and it aimed at allowing Wikipedians to use MediaWiki tools more effectively.</p>
<p align="center" dir="ltr"><img src="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/Telugu_Wikimedia_Hackathon__2014_40.jpg/image_preview" alt="Participants at Tewiki hackathon 2014" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Participants at Tewiki hackathon 2014" /></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">This one day workshop was organized at Golden Threshold, Hyderabad. 25 Telugu Wikimedia community members participated in this workshop. In the Hackathon, there were knowledge transferring sessions on various MediaWiki related technicalities and the participants got an opportunity to engage and communicate with each other and some of the MediaWiki expert users. Advanced MediaWiki users Rahmanuddin Shaik, Veeven and Kasyap were the speakers who gave short but eloquent speeches.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Discussion topics of this Hackathon event included:</p>
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<li>Understanding of MediaWiki software</li>
<li>Basic understanding of MediaWiki extensions</li>
<li>Typing Telugu in English keyboard</li>
<li>Creating, using and managing templates</li>
<li>Adding and managing references, reference formats, tables, images, audios and videos following Wikipedia format</li>
<li>Using Wikidata</li>
<li>Categorization process</li>
<li>Geo-tagging</li>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Some of these topics are comparatively more difficult than others. Wikidata is an addition to the Wikimedia projects that replaced Interwiki linking procedure.Typing Telugu in an English keyboard has been confusing to some users too. Using, specially creating and managing templates, categories, infoboxes, scripts require some training. In this workshop CIS-A2K attempted to teach and discuss all these topics. There was a doubt-clearing session as well, where participants were allowed to ask their questions and discuss their doubts.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K believes that the participants were benefited from this workshop and they will use and apply their learnings in editing and improving Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.</p>
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<li><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:తెలుగు_వికీమీడియా_హాకథాన్_-_2014">Official event page</a> (in Telugu)</li>
<li><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Telugu_Wikimedia_Hackathon_-_2014">Free images and media related to Hackathon 2014</a> (Wikimedia Commons)</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikimedia-hackathon-2014'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikimedia-hackathon-2014</a>
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No publisherrahimOpennessTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-02-10T17:17:03ZBlog EntryWorks of Veerasalingam Pantulu on web
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hans-india-december-31-2014-works-of-veerasalingam-pantulu-on-web
<b>Andhra Loyola College in association with Centre for Internet and Society (CIS- A2K) is conducting a six-day camp titled ‘Wiki Winter’ at Wikipedia Lab in the campus.</b>
<p>Click to read the PDF of the original article published by Hans India <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/works-of-veerasalingam-pantulu-on-web.pdf" class="external-link">here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The camp will conclude on Wednesday. Around 45 volunteers from BSc (Physics) and BA (Telugu) streams are attending the camp. The students are being trained to be the contributors for Wikipedia and they are authorised to add, edit and delete articles in Wikipedia using validated user ids.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The articles in the field of Physics which are not in Telugu language are being prepared by the students. The articles are scrutinised by experts from other parts of the world and are accepted on permanent basis. The students of BA (Telugu) are preparing the classical works of Kandukuri Veerasalingam. His works are being digitalised and are made available to people.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Kola Sekhar of Department of Telugu and the organising secretary said that Kandukuri Veerasalingam is a well-known social activist and a writer. His works reflected the social evils prevailing in the society which are still relevant today. The solutions Veerasalingam showcased through his works are not available to current generation. This camp aims to put his works online. Sekhar said that they would strive hard to add more and more classical works in Telugu to the Wikipedia.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hans-india-december-31-2014-works-of-veerasalingam-pantulu-on-web'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hans-india-december-31-2014-works-of-veerasalingam-pantulu-on-web</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-01-01T14:49:05ZNews ItemWiki Winter Camp - Coverage in Sakshi
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/sakshi-december-31-2014-wiki-winter-camp
<b>Media coverage for the Wiki winter camp held at Andhra Loyola College.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/sakshi-december-31-2014-wiki-winter-camp'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/sakshi-december-31-2014-wiki-winter-camp</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-01-01T16:58:23ZNews ItemWiki Winter Camp - Coverage in Eenadu
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/eenadu-december-31-wiki-winter-camp
<b>Media coverage of Wiki Winter Camp held at Andhra Loyola College.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/eenadu-december-31-wiki-winter-camp'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/eenadu-december-31-wiki-winter-camp</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-01-01T17:17:42ZNews ItemCreating Free Software Environment at Andhra Loyola College
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/creating-free-software-environment-at-alc
<b>Andhra Loyola college has signed an MoU with CIS-A2K and as part of it CIS-A2K team has provided a free and open software environment at Andhra Lyola College's Computer Center. Thirty machines have been installed with free software Operating system and some useful applications such as GIMP, Inkscape, firefox, libreoffice, etc.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Principal, Vice-principal, management and faculty at Andhra Loyola College expressed interest in upgrading their lab computers to latest software without having the glitches of piracy issues. The obvious solution to this was to install Linux based free OS like Ubuntu/Debian</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Program Director of CIS-A2K advised to have this process done in a pilot manner instead of forced imposition on faculty and students to use a totally new working environment. So, 30 machines from PG lab were selected for this purpose.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">These machines were installed with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS edition. In addition to the default available Libre office, firefox and terminal, Tools like Gimp, inkscape, apache web server were also installed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Each of the faculty and students present at the installation time were evangelized about Free Software and its wise uses in the long term.</p>
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No publisherrahimOpennessTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-05-27T00:54:42ZBlog EntryExpanding the World of Telugu Wikipedia – CIS-A2K and ALC join hands
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<b>Students and faculty of Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada aim to enhance Telugu Wikipedia through increased contributions to Wikipedia and make it available under free license.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">The Access to Knowledge </a>(A2K) programme of the Centre for Internet and Society (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Internet_and_Society_(India)">CIS</a>) in its quest to catalyze the growth of open knowledge movement in Indic languages recently added another feather to its cap by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with <a href="http://www.andhraloyolacollege.ac.in/">Andhra Loyola College</a> (ALC) in Vijayawada on August 14, 2014 to work collaboratively to improve <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%80">Telugu Wikipedia</a> and <a href="https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%80">Telugu Wikisource</a>. College Principal Fr. G.A.P. Kishore, Vice-Principals Fr. P. Anil Kumar and Fr. Rex Angelo, correspondent Fr. Raju signed the agreement with CIS-A2K programme director T. Vishnu Vardhan.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The MoU signed with ALC is for a period of five years and encompasses four activities:</p>
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<li>Open knowledge creation in Telugu across various disciplines on Telugu Wikipedia: ALC faculty and students will be trained by CIS-A2K staff and interested Telugu Wikimedians to understand the principles that govern Wikipedia in order to generate quality entries. Faculty from Botany, Physics, Statistics, Ethics, Religion, Telugu Literature, and Music will work with CIS-A2K. Each of the faculty in the coming months will come up with a plan to generate open knowledge in Telugu in their respective disciplines.</li>
<li>Content donation and digitization on Telugu Wikisource: ALC through its networks will help CIS-A2K to bring Telugu content under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. The Telugu department of the college expressed keen interest to work with CIS-A2K in digitizing historical Telugu content and to make it available on Telugu Wikisource. Various competitions will be planned in the future.</li>
<li>Creating a free software environment at Andhra Loyola College: 400 machines within various labs on the campus will be converted into FOSS systems with free and open source software including support for Telugu and other Indic languages. It should be noted that all the existing computers of ALC are run on proprietary software. As a pilot initiative CIS-A2K has already converted 30 systems in a lab and named it as Loyola FOSS Lab.</li>
<li>CIS-A2K to revise the FIT (Fundamentals in Information Technology): A mandatory course for all undergraduate students which will introduce students to FOSS, Openness and Wikipedia. This is an outcome of the FOSS orientation done by T. Vishnu Vardhan and Rahimanuddin Shaik during the two workshops that were held at ALC.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K will put every effort to involve Telugu Wikimedians and FOSS community in taking this collaboration with ALC forward. CIS-A2K will also create a project page on Telugu Wikipedia to actively document and publicly share the detailed plans and progress. More updates will also be shared on this website.</p>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/alc1.png" alt="ALC and CIS-A2K" class="image-inline" title="ALC and CIS-A2K" /></th>
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<td>Above: Representatives from ALC and CIS-A2K seen during the signing ceremony.</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The signing of the MoU was done at a public event in the presence of students, faculty and management of ALC and various representatives from media. The media covered this event enthusiastically. The Hindu coverage can be found <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/alc-signs-mou-for-better-net-access/article6320555.ece">here</a> and Eenadu article coverage is <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/news/cis-mou-with-alc-coverage-in-eenadu" class="external-link">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/expanding-the-world-of-telugu-wikipedia-cis-and-alc-join-hands'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/expanding-the-world-of-telugu-wikipedia-cis-and-alc-join-hands</a>
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